Slavery North: Excavating Canadian Slavery and Other Un(der)studied Sites
– a digital workshop 31 March - 2 April, organised by Prof. Charmaine Nelson at The Institute for the Study of Canadian Slavery, NSCAD University, Halifax, (Mi’kma’ki), Canada.
“Slavery North” is a multi-day, academic, virtual workshop, focused on understudied and often overlooked regions of Transatlantic Slavery. This invitation-only event is designed to convene a small group of specialists from diverse disciplines, including those who are typically marginalized within Transatlantic Slavery Studies. This workshop will focus on Transatlantic Slavery in Canada and other overlooked and un(der)studied regions like the American North, and those that were colonized by Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Due to the over-emphasis on certain tropical and semi-tropical regions, often under British, French, and Spanish control, the study of slavery in other locations has been ignored and lacks the rigorous development of subfields which examine things like slave culture, diet, dress, ethnicity, family structures, literacy, maternity, and resistance. This workshop facilitates the emergence of detailed studies for these neglected regions through an examination of the archival holdings, case studies, methodologies, and historiographies from these sites.
Ingeborg Høvik contributed with a presentation on "Art history and slavery in Norway".
For abstracts, bios and programme see https://www.blackcanadianstudies.com/special_events/Slavery-North-Excavating-Canadian-Slavery-and-Other-Un-der-studied-Sites-e15/
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